Earlier Sunday, a suicide car bombing in the northern city of Beiji killed two Iraqi soldiers near a checkpoint. A
similar attack in the oil-refining city on Saturday killed eight people near a police building.

Insurgents have carried out a series of attacks in northern Iraq in recent days, mostly targeting Iraqi security forces
and militia groups opposed to al-Qaida. Some militants have relocated to northern Iraq to escape security crackdowns by
U.S. and Iraqi forces in Baghdad and nearby regions.

In another development, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Sunday for the immediate release of five British
hostages held by an Iraqi Shi'ite group for the past six months.

Mr. Brown made his appeal after the captors released their first video Tuesday that showed one of the five men and
demanded the withdrawal of all British forces from Iraq. The kidnappers did not say what the consequences would be if
Britain did not comply.

The four British security guards and one computer expert were seized in May from a Finance Ministry building in Baghdad.

The protesters want Dulaimi to stand trial in connection with the discovery of two car bombs near his Baghdad office
late last month. Iraqi authorities have said they may bring charges against Dulaimi's bodyguards, but the lawmaker
himself is not under investigation.

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